Category: Climate change / environment

378 Climate change / environment posts found.

(Ghost)busting Halloween waste myths: encouraging residents to get spookily sustainable

23/10/2020
Cover your face

Joint story with our partners Veolia  We all love Halloween for the pumpkin lanterns, costumes and decorations, but one of the scariest…

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Community Tree Scheme closed as 10,000 snapped up

08/10/2020
An image of planted trees

Unprecedented demand has seen 10,000 trees on offer to residents of Shropshire snapped up in just 24 hours. Shropshire Council’s Community Tree…

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Tree scheme launched with tribute to “much loved” Shropshire Council worker

08/10/2020
Percy Mullaly

A tree will be planted in memory of a popular and well-loved Shropshire Council worker who recently passed away. Percy Mullaly worked…

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Housing Day: Right Home, Right Place

07/10/2020
Housing Day 2020

As part of this year’s Housing Day today (Wednesday 7 October 2020) we take a closer look at how Shropshire Council and its…

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Community Tree Scheme is now open for business

07/10/2020
An image of planted trees

Please note that the scheme has now closed for this year due to unprecedented demand – thank you so much for the…

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Development of Shrewsbury’s Park and Ride takes big step forward

06/10/2020

Plans to develop the existing Shrewsbury Park and Ride service into a ‘next generation’ transport system have taken a big step forward,…

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Shropshire Council secures funding for electric vehicles charging trial

29/09/2020
Funding has been secured for new charge points

Shropshire Council is part of a consortium that has secured major funding from the Department of Energy, Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)…

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#PlantMoreTrees: Shropshire Council to relaunch community tree scheme

29/09/2020
An image of planted trees

To help achieve its ambition to plant a tree for every resident in the county, Shropshire Council is to bring back the…

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Taking action for nature: protecting wildlife, communities and the environment

24/09/2020
A woody debris dam

Shropshire Council is committed to achieving net-zero carbon by 2030, and recognises that an important part of this is addressing the crisis…

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Shropshire Council supporting new county Climate Action Partnership

09/09/2020

Shropshire Council is working with and supporting a working group of founding sponsors that has come together to create a Climate Action…

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